Former Apple design chief Jony Ive and Prince Charles on Friday announced the launch of a design competition that will give students from London s Royal College of Art a chance to explore and create solutions for a more sustainable future.
Terra Carta Design Lab has invited 2,300 students selected from the RCA s architecture, arts & humanities, communication, and design schools, including alumni who graduated between 2011 and 2021, reports
Wallpaper. They will work together in multidisciplinary teams to create small designs that can make a big impact for the world s transition to a sustainable future, a press release says.
According to the lab s mission statement, participants will be able to investigate local initiatives to restore biodiversity, reduce greenhouse gases, support developing countries, and catalyse a new economic and social model that realigns people with their environment.
Jony Ive, Prince Charles partner on sustainable design competition Former Apple design chief Jony Ive and Prince Charles on Friday announced the launch of a design competition that will give students from London s Royal College of Art a chance to explore and create solutions for a more sustainable future.
Terra Carta Design Lab has invited 2,300 students selected from the RCA s architecture, arts & humanities, communication, and design schools, including alumni who graduated between 2011 and 2021, reports
Wallpaper. They will work together in multidisciplinary teams to create small designs that can make a big impact for the world s transition to a sustainable future, a press release says.
Mayor overseeing a green regeneration in city where temperatures can already surpass 40C
Smog settles over central Athens. Photograph: Eye Ubiquitous/Alamy
Smog settles over central Athens. Photograph: Eye Ubiquitous/Alamy
Mon 10 May 2021 00.00 EDT
Like every Athens mayor, Kostas Bakoyannis is acutely aware of the illustrious heritage of one of the worldâs oldest cities. After all, he says, it is busts of Pericles and his mistress Aspasia that adorn the entrance of the neoclassical town hall. From the windows of his cavernous office, he can glimpse the Parthenon through the jumble of concrete buildings and antennas.
But Bakoyannis prefers to talk about the present, not least his plans for fountains, parks and trees â antidotes to the afflictions of more modern times.